Elephants Quotes - Page 15

• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  Jim Starlin

  Whales, Bigs, Chains

  "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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• Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Balloons, Ghost, Moonlight

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.164, Egmont UK

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Pride, Cry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Underwater, Next

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• Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

  Yao Ming

  Baby, Ivory, Orphan

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• When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Success, Eye, Mind

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• The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Men, Hair

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• One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

  Lauren Myracle

  Happy Life, Play, Two

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• She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that

  Darren Shan

  Beautiful, Laughter, Underwear

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• A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

  Peter Atkins

  Men, Roaming Around, Molecules

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• I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

  Dianna Agron

  Animal, May, Feels

  "Dianna Agron Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR; Plus an Update on the GLEE Super Bowl Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  Kevin Spacey

  Mediocrity, Rooms, Elephant In The Room

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

  Roman Jakobson

  Teaching, Next, Zoology

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• He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.

  Nicole Krauss

  Morning, Eye, Night

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• Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Engagement

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.195, Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Criminals

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• Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Baby, Circus

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Break A Leg, Growth, Village

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• They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.

  Pat Derby

  Loyalty, Equality, Whales

  Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

  Shashi Tharoor

  Years, Two, Sound

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• I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

  Jodi Picoult

  Zebras, White, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Eye, Expression

  Victor Hugo (18??). “The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings”

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